Submitted by Ann Lavanway on Sat, 12/27/2014 - 11:44am

A recent article on Motherboard describes work done by Prof. Olga Zhaxybayeva shows that the deep oil reserves are loaded with microbes that have been busy swapping genetic material for eons. For a link to the full article, please click here.

The full scientific findings are published in the following publication:

Submitted by Ann Lavanway on Tue, 08/26/2014 - 4:16pm

Professor Olga Zhaxybayeva has been selected to be one of the 2014 Simons Investigators in Mathematical Modeling of Living Systems. This support enables the long-term research of "outstanding theoretical scientists." For more information about the Simons Foundation, please visit their website.